Labor contract negotiations in the airline industry (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, July 2003

Labor contract negotiations in the airline industry

Andrew von Nordenflycht
Graduate Student, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Thomas A. Kochan
George M. Bunker Professor of Management, Institute for Work and Employment Research, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA.

Airline labor negotiations take 1.3 years, on average, to conclude, and about half go into Federal mediation; much of the variance in the duration of negotiations can be attributed to which particular airlines and unions are bargaining, not to economic conditions.

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